At 18 years old, Nathan Chen is turning heads. This year, he became the youngest U.S. Champion since 1966 after winning the 2017 National title. At that same competition, he became the first skater ever to land five quadruple jumps in one program. Now, the young skater is making his way to PyeongChang in South Korea for the Olympics, and he thinks he has a "pretty high chance" at winning gold. From his devastating injury (he's recovered now) to his musical skills, here's what you need to know about the record-breaking Olympian.

1. Nathan is Chinese-American. “I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me from that so I didn’t feel it at all,” Nathan Chen told Team USA. "As I got older, there were more and more Asian kids at [skating] competitions that I was going to – that felt cool to me."

2. But he says his Chinese is "not so good." "My Chinese name is Chen Wei," Nathan told isu.org. "I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well."

3. He's the youngest of five siblings. According to Team USA, one sister works in Silicon Valley, while the other is other is working on getting her Ph.D. One brother is studying aerospace and the other has a career in finance. "I’m the baby for sure," Chen said during a recent press conference. "My siblings are looking out for me, making sure I’m not doing something stupid. They are making sure my head is set straight and that I’m a good person outside of skating and inside of it, too. They all hyped me to go to the Olympics when I was a little kid. They’re very excited for me."

4. He grew up in Salt Lake City, where the 2002 Winter Olympics were held. "I remember training at [SLC Sports Complex] with Apolo [Anton Ohno] face right on the wall, and the Olympic rings right next to [me]. Also, driving to the rink, I'd see the Olympic torch," he said during an interview with U.S. Figure Skating, "So to see that, just to be in an Olympic environment, was super beneficial to me and an amazing experience."

5. He fell in love with skating when he went to a public skating session with his siblings at 3-years-old. After the Olympics, a number of rinks and practice facilities were opened up in his area. Nathan told InStyle that he used to watch his brother play hockey and thought the gear was cool, so he decided he wanted to play too. But instead of hockey blades, Nathan's mom bought him figure skate because she figured it would be easier for him to skate in them. According to USA Today, when his first public skating session ended, Nathan refused to leave until his mom dragged him off the ice. "I don't remember too much of that," Chen told USA Today, laughing. "I was kind of young."

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6. He also trained in ballet and gymnastics as a child, according to NBC. His fellow ballerinas think he'd have been amazing had he stuck with dance over skating; "When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through," Chen told Ice Network. "When I watch my artistry now, it's like, 'Yes, it's still there,' but at the same time, I'm so focused on the jumps, it takes away from it."

7. And he's played piano since he was five. And he also plays guitar in his spare time. (And he played the violin for a while too.)

8. As a kid, Nathan was self-conscious of being one of the only male skaters in his classes. "As a kid growing up, I didn’t want to tell any of my classmates I did figure-skating because I knew they’d be like 'Oh, you’re a skater, you're gay, blah blah blah.' So I kept it to myself." Nathan told Cosmopolitan.com. "Once I started getting to more of an elite level, I didn’t really care what people thought, though. This is my dream and this is what I was doing. Figure skating is very inclusive, which I love — there are a lot of gay athletes, but there are a lot of straight athletes too. I'm a straight skater!"

9. And he says he's "a little bit jealous" of his peers who just get to be regular teenagers. “I never got to go to prom or homecoming or a lot of the typical teenage stuff," he told Team USA. "But, if you think about it, I’ve gotten to go and meet different people and travel all over the world. These are crazy things ... All of that comes with it.”

10. That said, he predicted he'd be at the 2018 Olympics when he was 10 years old, after competing and winning the national novice title at the 2010 U.S. Championship (as the youngest skater there). So basically, he's clairvoyant or a ridiculously hard worker, but probably a bit of both.

11. He told U.S. Figure Skating he wants to go to medical school after 2018, but is thinking about a gap year first. Nathan also plans to minor in business studies, "[so] that I can have both ends of the spectrum." Or maybe, Nathan told NBC News, he'll end up "in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals."